Coming Back

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     Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that

     you can see the place you came from with new eyes and

     extra colors. And the people there see you differently,

     too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as

     never leaving.

         Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

To be complete

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   You can’t be a complete person without having to

   wrestle with your own demons – and, for that matter,

   with your own angel. 

     Harold S. Kushner, Living a Life That Matters

Secrets of Tomorrow

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   What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help
   you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

     Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

What lies within us

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What lies behind us and what lies

before us are small matters when

compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sympathy

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Sympathy is a consequence of inclusion, the affectionate

result of an expanded identity that occurs when “self” and

“other” are recognized as simply “self.”

Lin Jensen, "Having the Lake to Ourselves”
   in The Best Buddhist Writing 2011, ed. by Melvin McLeod

Unity

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A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.

Ethiopian proverb

Wisdom

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All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidity is original.

Huge Kerr

Infinite responsibility

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   Our being spreads out far beyond us, and mingles with the

   beings of others.  We live in other peoples’ thoughts, their

   plans, their dreams  . . .  we have an infinite responsibility.

    Iris Murdoch

Seeing

RIC_1119, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

It’s never enough just to tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it in a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people’s heads, you need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way. 

John Seely Brown, Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation

Pilgrims

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     We are, all of us, pilgrims who struggle along different

     paths towards the same destination.

       Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Metaphors

RIC_3128, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Metaphors matter – they are powerful images, creating options and limits. 

Mark Lau Branson, Memories, Hopes, and Conversations

Within

RIC_4629, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Wrapped within
young leaves:
the sound of water.

Soseki

Self-parent

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

The self-parent is the part of us we develop to respond appropriately to the inner child, to fill the gaps in our development and allow us to proceed in life as an integrated, whole person.

Christina Baldwin, One to One

Memory

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Memory is a funny thing. If you want to bury it, it will be bottled up deeply inside. But if you decide to unleash it, it will open a floodgate and take over everything else.

Kien Nguyen, Asian American dentist
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen

Hope

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Hope is the pillar of the world.

African Proverb

Seeking

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Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; rather, seek what they sought.

Gautama Buddha